By the Pricking of My Thumbs

A dreadful secret from Tommy and Tuppence Beresford's past was still murderously alive and somehow attached to Mrs. Lancaster's sudden departure from the Sunny Ridge establishment for elderly ladies.

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Tuppence & Tommy Beresford felt obligated to visit their elderly & unpleasant aunt in a nursing home. They had no idea they would become involved in a strange inheritance, witness black magic & search for a missing tombstone!

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When visiting Tommys Aunt Ada in her nursing home, Tuppence encounters Mrs Lancaster who talks about your poor child and something behind the fireplace. A painting left to them by Aunt Ada brings Tuppence a dangerous adventure and the horrible realization of what Mrs Lancaster was talking about.

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The third Tommy & Tuppence novel, reissued in a new look to coincide with the brand new series of Tommy & Tuppence BBC movies.When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady.But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about 'something behind the fireplace', Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic...

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The third Tommy & Tuppence novel, reissued in a new look to coincide with the brand new series of Tommy & Tuppence BBC movies.When Tommy and Tuppence visited an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they thought nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada was a very difficult old lady.But when Mrs Lockett mentioned a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talked about _something behind the fireplace_, Tommy and Tuppence found themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving possible black magic_